MEDIEVAL GUILD SYSTEM WANT TO MAKE FOCUS OF GAME HOW?

I've been working on a similar concept. As a piano technician and rebuilder, I am actually part of a modern day guild system that works much in the way you have described.

The apprentice level should be a job game. Your character works for a single person. This person gives you the task of finding items (certain materials and tools needed for work), and assisting him in his work (this can be done much like a two stage system in which the boss performs the task at timed intervals, you repeatedly press an action button or press certain buttons in a certain sequence).

I think you're spot on with the idea of making the journeyman level like a typical RPG. Take the apprentice elements and have him go from town to town. He should take jobs with a master in each town and when the master runs out of assignments for him, send the character to another town.

For the master level, we should see the character building a homestead, and raising a family, and plying his trade on a local level. At this stage, I would recommend making this game like the Sims.

Personally, I would have wide range of trades available to the considering player, both real and fictional. The Knight levels are page, squire, knight. Some people may want to be knights. Some may want to be blacksmiths (apprentice, journeymen, masters) tanners, tailors, carpenters, and conversely some may want to be wizards (these occur both in fantasy and history), dragon slayers, and the like. Create a world that is fantastic, but is based on real historical elements. For example, set your world in London of an alternate reality. It follows the relative history of London, but with those elements of fantasy such as dragons and elves. You may want to read the novels of Harry Turtledove for an idea of how you might do alternative history.

Truthfully, I think this is a wonderful idea for a game. I would most definitely play, and as I said, for a game I've been working on, I've been thinking about something similar.

Hmm...for the slayer in general, you may want to consider it a branch of the knight class, as it does involve knowledge of combat and arms, however (and I'm looking specifically at the demon slayer here) you may wish to consider a specialist class that combines fighter with some form of wizard or other type of mystic. May I suggest the class "Demonologist"?

If you enjoy studying history, it may be fun to put a little occult research into this. For example, you may like to toy with the idea that when your demon hunter is pursuing a demon, the demon is actually not in this realm. You have to battle human or animal henchmen that the demon has possessed and acquire the ritual relics these henchmen use to pledge their loyalty in order to be able to access the demon on a physical realm (once you've acquired the necessary artifacts, you can fight and vanquish the demon). You know, that's not a bad idea for a game by itself...

Such a character would maybe start after having lost family or other loved ones to such a monster, seeking out a master hunter who, after some cajoling, agrees to take him or her on as an apprentice. Perhaps the apprentice could bear witness to the master's untimely death, at which point he enters the journeyman stage and begins to find other masters. This could actually be quite divergent. I would imagine this existence to be a lonely one, so that once achieving the rank of master, he or she still might not be rooted to any specific community.

A dragon or monster slayer, I imagine retiring as maybe a local combat or martial arts instructor, but something tells me that a demon slayer would be a very different kind of animal, especially because of the necessarily mystical nature of such a field.

Tie this in with the wizard (they've always existed throughout time, and to this very day, government officials consult them on a variety of issues), who is the more generic variety of mystic. These people often choose a very solitary lifestyle in their old age, often feeling that a family would interfere in their introspection and studies. It's usually when they're long in the tooth that they start considering passing their knowledge on to a younger one, but oh, where to find someone worthy...

A mage's guild is a bit more complicated than your typical carpenter's or tanner's guild. The study progression is as follows: Probationer-->student-->acolyte-->adept-->master-->magus-->ipsissimus. The probationer is studying to be tested to prove that he is even worthy of being taught in the first place. The student, having proven himself worthy, begins his early work (and this is the stage that most adepts and masters say that a hopeful most often drops out and leaves apprenticeship). The acolyte by reaching this stage shows that he is willing to endure hardship (if the acolyte drops out, it is usually due to circumstances beyond his control, and rarely because he thinks the work is too hard. If he's passed the point of being a student, he's already accepted that the work is hard). The adept is probably comparable to the journeyman level. The master has left his teachers behind because he has finally realized that nobody can teach you mysticism. You have to learn it on your own. His goal is to contact beings beyond the ordinary human spirit. Once he has accomplished this ability see beyond the fabric of reality, he is a magus. Only the ipsissimus knows what it takes to be an ipsissimus.

My recommendation is that you start thinking about these a little later in development. For the moment, start with basics. What does every community need?

Land, food, clothing, housing, water, transportation, roads, and tools.

We need land and water to grow food, food and water to survive, clothing to protect us from the elements, housing to protect that which have acquired, transportation to make sure we can transport what we need to where we need it, roads to connect the community, and none of it would exist if we didn't have tools to make it so. So our main guilds should be:

Engineer
Carpenter
Farmer
Tanner (leathersmith)
Butcher
Baker
Blacksmith
Miller (flour makers)
Tailor
Weaver
Hunter
Woodsman (Tree cutters and sawmillers)
Miner

From there we can establish a second class of things we need. We have what we need to survive, but now there are other things we might want. Books, exotic foods, light in case our nice books carry us into the later hours, fine material for our cloths.

Trapper
Trader
Merchant
Librarian
Chandler (candlemaker)

We need a government and a police force to protect it. This requires finances, which requires precious minerals and commodities.

Banker (this includes money changers, handlers, accountants, and lawyers)
Constable
Soldier
Knight

You've got quite an undertaking ahead of you. Once community is established, you can start thinking about the subtle intricacies of community.

Mystic
Doctor
Scientist
(Often these three are one and the same)

You've got quite a task ahead of you. This probably going to be one of those years long projects that people on here talk about.